Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands Project Design Workshop 30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia
Presentation: Research on sustainable intensification (by Iain Wright)
This workshop provides an opportunity for a broad group of important stakeholders to both learn about the project plans and to share their views on expectations from and opportunities for synergies with the project (days 1 and 2) and for the core project team to finalize the project details (days 3 and 4).
The CGIAR is changing and this has implications for this particular project.
SI introduction: Does this mean more production per acre?
Elements: inputs to tech, social infrastructures, farmer knowledge and capacity, engagement with private sector, gender issues and access to micro-finance, availability of credit, ensuring public sector support for agriculture.
The new CGIAR: to reduce poverty and hunger through 4 high-level outcomes: reducing rural poverty, improving food security, improving nutrition and health, sustainable management of natural resources.
To achieve these outcomes the new CGIAR programme has 15 CGIAR research programmes (CRPs) of which 4-5 are very relevant for this programme too:
Integrated systems in dry areas (CRP 1.1). Four strategic research themes (SRTs): a) innovation systems, policy and partners b) reduced vulnerability, c) sustainable intensification, d) targeting, characterisation and impact via future scenarios etc.).
Integrated systems in humid areas (CRP 1.2): Three SRTs: analysis of situation, Research for Development (R4D) triangle (systems productivity, markets integration, NRM), R4D scaling.
More milk, meat and fish by and for the poor (CRP 3.7): increased access to ASF can be achieved at scale by carefully strengthening value chains across inputs/services, production, processing, marketing and consumers. Relation here is the value chain on small holder small ruminants in Ethiopia.
Water-land ecosystems (CRP 5): improvements in governments and management, effective interventions to end land degradation, tradeoffs between intensification and NRM. Focuses on river basins including Nile basin.
Project Design Workshop
30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia
Presentation: Research on sustainable intensification (by Iain Wright)
This workshop provides an opportunity for a broad group of important stakeholders to both learn about the project plans and to share their views on expectations from and opportunities for synergies with the project (days 1 and 2) and for the core project team to finalize the project details (days 3 and 4).
The CGIAR is changing and this has implications for this particular project.